Sightings - Friday 29th April 2011

Black-throated Diver -1 past Portland Bill
Great Northern Diver - 1 past Hengistbury Head, 1 past Portland Bill
Black Stork - 1 flew over Morden Bog late morning, with presumably the same individual seen distantly in flight over the Wareham Forest early afternoon
Red Kite - 1 near Sturminster Marshall, 1 near Chideock
Marsh Harrier - 1 Coombe Heath
Hen Harrier - 1 Wyke Down, Sixpenny Handley
Hobby - 4 Wareham Forest, 1 Durlston, 1 Arne Moors
Purple Sandpiper - 1 Portland Bill
Jack Snipe - 1 Durlston
Long-billed Dowitcher - 1st summer still at Lodmoor
Great Skua - 1 past Portland Bill
Puffin - 1 past Durlston, 1 Portland Bill
Cuckoo - 2 Wareham Forest, 1 Cannon Hill Plantation, Colehill, 1 Longham Lakes, 1 Durlston
Short-eared Owl - 1 Portland Bill
Nightingale - 1 Durlston
Black Redstart - 1 Portland Bill
Redstart - 1 Wareham Forest
Whinchat - 2 Portland Bill
Ring Ouzel - 2 Portland Bill
Grasshopper Warbler - 2 Portland Bill
Firecrest - 1 Wareham Forest, 1 Abbotsbury Sub-tropical Gardens
Spotted Flycatcher - 1 Durlston

Late news from yesterday; a Stork sp. was seen in the Wareham/Arne area

Bar-tailed Godwits at Lodmoor © Daragh Croxson